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Courage & Cracks. Like Cartoonist Bill Mauldin (another Yank contributor) Reporter Bernstein presents his G.I.s with affection, understanding, some acid humor, no glamor. In foxholes and juke joints these free-&-easy democrats bristle with the sour, witty, aggressively individualistic, trigger-quick cracks that make the U.S. warrior incomprehensible (and therefore frightening) to his enemies. With a keen ear for idiom and a deft hand with dialogue, Reporter Bernstein has successfully put the G.I. gripe down on paper...
...order to stimulate greater student participation in blood donations to the Red Cross, the war services committees in both Adams and Lowell House are conducting door-to-door drives. A keen rivalry is brewing to determine the greater contributor. In Eliot House a drive to enlist Navy blood donations will begin sometime this week, although strict physical requirements have been set up by the Navy doctors...
That the U.S. would take the lead, if Bretton Woods is ratified, is plainly indicated by the fact that the U.S. would be the heaviest contributor to both the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Monetary Fund contemplated by the Bretton Woods agreement. Purpose of the Bank is to guarantee or make loans for reconstruction to devastated countries. Purpose of the Fund: to control monetary exchange fluctuations...
...left the staff some years ago to become a free-lance contributor. Because of his dim sight (one eye was ruined when, in boyhood, his brother accidentally shot an arrow into it) he has written comparatively little in the last two or three years. He is forced to draw on huge sheets of paper, wearing special glasses (see cut). His last big writing job was a play, The Male Animal, done in 1940 with Elliot Nugent. From time to time, he shows up at the New Yorker offices, to stand in the corridors and shout "Nuts!" He still tells friends...
Warned a professor-contributor to Ta Rung Pao: "The soul of a nation is uprightness. Without uprightness man is without a soul. In the past young men were full of uprightness which has now gradually disappeared. This is the greatest loss and danger, and the greatest problem...